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περιπαθ-ής , ές,
A.deeply moved, “τῇ συμφορᾷ” Plb.1.81.1 ; “ἔρωτι” Plu.Art.27 ; “χαρᾷ καὶ δέει” J.AJ15.2.7 ; π. τοῖς ὄψοις eager for . . , Phan.Hist.13 ; π. ταῖς ψυχαῖς in spirit, Plb.4.54.3 : abs., Plu.Cim.8.
2. passionate, “ῥήτορες” Longin.8.3 ; σὺν οἰμωγῇ π. Luc.Hist.Conscr.26 : Comp., “ἑταίρα τῶν ἐν τοῖς μίμοις -εστέρα” Ael.Fr.123: Sup., ὅρκοσ-έστατος Sch.Par.A.R.2.257. Adv. -“θῶς” LXX 4 Ma.8.2, Luc.Tim.46; “ἐπιδραμεῖν” Ael.NA9.8: Comp.-έστερον“, λέγειν” Plu.2.456a.
3. pathetic, heartrending, D.C.40.41; “λόγος” Id.76.9（Sup.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (11):
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 15.2.7
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.257
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.81.1
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.54.3
    • Plutarch, Artaxerxes, 27
    • Plutarch, Cimon, 8
    • Lucian, Timon, 46
    • Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, 26
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 9.8
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 40.41
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 76.9
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